physical abuse risk_factor_for internalizing disorders

Child maltreatment prior to age 8 significantly predicted ... internalizing problems.

maltreatment ... contributing to internalizing problems

Maltreatment occurring prior to the early school-age years was hypothesized to predict emergent internalizing ... symptomatology during childhood

Results supported the maladaptive effect child maltreatment shows across all of the examined levels: internalizing...

we seek to determine how child maltreatment influences the development of ... internalizing psychopathology